Saturday, 8 August 2026

24,655 passenger trains were recorded on Saturday, 8 August 2026 and 226 of them were cancelled. Arrival times were not captured for most of this day, so it is a record of what ran rather than of how punctual it was.

24,655 passenger services were recorded as having been scheduled and settled on this date. Arrival times reached the archive for only 10,297 of them, so nothing is claimed here about how late the rest were — the figures below cover what ran and what did not.

A weekend timetable, so the 24,655 recorded runs are well below a weekday's — most engineering possessions land here too, which shortens some routes and removes others entirely.

226 services were cancelled, 0.9% of everything booked. The reason given most often was “This service has been cancelled because of a shortage of train crew”, on 95 of them. Cancellation reasons are close to complete even on days like this, and they are the operators' own wording, reproduced unedited.

Avanti West Coast lost the largest share of its own timetable, 19.1% of 393 booked runs.

The day in numbers

Every percentage among the bands is of the 10,297 trains whose arrival reached the archive — not of all 24,655, and the bands are exclusive. 14,132 trains ran without an arrival time being recorded, and nothing is claimed about how punctual those were. Delay is judged at the destination, a stricter test than the industry's own measure and not comparable with it.

By operator

39 operators ran passenger services on this date, from ScotRail on 2,840 runs down to Caledonian Sleeper on 3. Ordered by volume, not performance — any heading re-sorts it.

Why trains were late

8 different reasons were given for delay on this date, each reproduced in the operator's own words.

Why trains were cancelled

A reason reached the archive for 216 of the 226 cancellations (95.6%), across 8 distinct reasons. A run cancelled part-way along often carries no reason at all.

The longest delays

The worst of them arrived 2h 04m behind schedule — LARATMD to LARATMD, booked away at 01:55, run by an operator. The ten longest range from 2h 04m down to 1h 14m, and they belong to 6 operators, Southeastern accounting for 3. What a delay on that scale usually means.

Through the day

Booked departures by hour.

The quietest was 02:00 with 24.

Buses

15,431 buses from 153 operators were seen on this date, across 2,803,176 position reports.

Bus punctuality was not yet being archived on this date, so only vehicle activity is shown. Nothing before that can be recovered.

Recorded live from the Darwin and TRUST feeds on 8 Aug 2026 itself. How these figures are measured · Sources and licences